Diagonally Quotes

#1. The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

Howard Staunton

#2. Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows.

Don DeLillo

#3. Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. I feel like i am parked diagonally in a parallel universe

Anonymous

#6. He didn't miss a beat. "Is this an interview?"
"Yes."
"What job am I applying for?"
"The job of my dance and life partner - figuratively, literally, horizontally, vertically, and hopefully, laterally. And, depending on how flexible you are, diagonally.

Penny Reid

#7. A bowling ball rolled through his head, diagonally from nape to temple; it paused and started back.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.

Roz Savage

#9. An image begins taking shape. Soon, however, it becomes diagonally deformed, like italics, and disappears like a flame blown out. Then the whole process starts again. The image strains to right itself. Trembling, it tries to give concrete form to something. But the image will not come together.

Haruki Murakami

#10. It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

Harry Nilsson

#11. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Various

#12. It was no use getting angry with Wullie; he lived in a Wullie-shaped world of his own. You had to think diagonally.

Terry Pratchett

#13. - My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman.
- Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.

Laurence Sterne

#14. diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

Simon Singh

#15. Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#16. The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

#17. Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

Jacques Barzun

#18. The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

Howard Staunton

#19. I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.

Vikrmn

#20. I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV ... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

Aasif Mandvi

#21. People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

AraabMuzik

#22. My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Erik Satie

#23. From all that I heard, and overheard, fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed.

V.C. Andrews

#24. I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#25. Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?

Andy Cairns

#26. One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

Ruth Sawyer

#27. The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

Will Ferrell

#28. Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.

Alan Hassenfeld

#29. I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell you a story-maybe a thousand stories. The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.

Stirling Silliphant

#30. There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#31. It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#32. Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#33. I'm giving you what I can give you, and I'm telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it's worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it's worth it.

K.A. Linde

#34. I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Beth Gutcheon